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Re: rotating plots [message #42366 is a reply to message #19076]

Thu, 27 January 2005 18:13

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Rob writes:

> Can anyone tell me an easy way in direct graphics to rotate a line plot
> counter-clockwise by 90 degrees so that the x axis is now in the
> positive y direction and the y axis is now in the negative x direction?
> Simply swapping the x and y vectors in the PLOT command doesn't quite
> do it.

The simplest way (used by a lot of astrophysicists, it turns
out) is to output to PostScript instead of to the display,
then just give the page a sort of "twist". Or, alternatively,
I think you can crink your neck around a quarter turn.

But that is about the size of it in IDL, I'm afraid. ;-(

Cheers,

David
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		rotating plots By: Stuart Colley on Fri, 25 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rotating plots By: Stuart Colley on Fri, 25 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rotating plots By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 25 February 2000 00:00
		Re: rotating plots By: Rob[1] on Thu, 27 January 2005 18:24
		Re: rotating plots By: war on Thu, 27 January 2005 18:16
		Re: rotating plots By: David Fanning on Thu, 27 January 2005 18:13
		Re: rotating plots By: Rob[1] on Thu, 27 January 2005 17:56
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